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Good practices with Python if - Pedroski55 - Nov-06-2021
This kind of "if clause" works ok.
I'm just wondering if (no pun intended) this is good practice when writing Python.
sign = '-' if n < 0 else ''Normally, I would start with "if", but the above is actually more human readable and succinct.
if n < 0:
sign = '-'
else:
sign = ''
RE: Good practices with Python if - Gribouillis - Nov-07-2021
It is excellent practice to use the conditional operator. It was introduced in Python 2.5, because people complained that Python lacked a ternary operator such as C's
x = a ? b : c. Before that, people would sometimes use ersatz expressions such assign = ('', '-')[n < 0]